Want to read more sci-fi? What does it mean to “read diversely” and do you need to do more of it? Are you notorious for not finishing your to-read pile? It’s a new year which means a new year because that’s how it works, right? Some of the WWAC contributors have shared their reading resolutions…
Movies That Moved Me In 2016
I’m not particularly interested in Best Of lists. After the third list it gets stale and instead of discussing art that moved us, the discourse instead seems to focus on who wrote the best list, what rank the obviously good things appeared in. So this year I asked our writers to tell me about the…
WWAC Pagans: A Roundtable
Today is a magical day! It’s Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, or you know, Halloween. For some pagans (not all though!), it’s a big deal, it’s like our New Year. I asked four WWAC pagans, which would include me, your lifestyle editor, to talk about their pagan identities, their favorite practices, and cultural appropriation in paganism….
Tiffany Aching Offers Practical Magic for the Modern Witch
Like most budding pagans, I first encountered the idea of witches as people to look up to in fiction—most vividly (since I’m too old to have grown up with Harry Potter) in the form of Morwen, the practical, ginger-haired witch in Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Morwen was smart and sensible, had a household…
Why I Love Erotic Fanfic and What I Learned From It
Fanfiction has a historical relationship to erotica and porn Slash: the subset of fanfiction that now encompasses all sorts of queer relationships that originally denoted a sexual relationship between Kirk and Spock through punctuation (K/S) as opposed to other punctuation markers which denoted friendship or non-sexual relationships (K+S). But contemporary mainstream media, thanks to stories like 50 Shades…
Reading Diaries: What We’re Reading this Summer
Angel: I’ve been pretty focused on upcoming books recently, and a current favourite is The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, based off The Lizzie Bennet Diaries webseries character. I liked it much more than Lizzie’s book, which was released last year, because Lydia felt more real and like she had potential to explore beyond the…
Without Smearing Her Lipstick: Missing Agent Carter? Try Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
If you’re reading TV reviews on this site, there’s a good chance you’re already watching Marvel’s Agent Carter. If you’re living in the United States (or anywhere outside of Australia), however, there’s a good chance you’re not watching Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. If that’s the case, you’ll want to fire up your Netflix queue right…